RFC: Epsilon GC JEP

[Andrew Haley]

On 14/12/17 21:29, Micha Berger wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 14, 2017 at 09:42:53PM +0100, Roman Kennke wrote:
>> Am 14.12.2017 um 21:18 schrieb Aleksey Shipilev:
>>> On 12/14/2017 01:15 AM, mberger wrote:
>>>> I think Epsilon supporting System.gc() / Runtime.getRuntime().gc() would be very useful. And if the
>>>> behavior isn't wanted, well there is always -XX:+DisableExplicitGC.
> 
>>> And that will do what? System.gc() requests are ignored by Epsilon, because there is nothing to do.
> 
>> I believe he wanted to say that it'd be useful if it *did* something
>> (i.e. collect garbage). I presume the idea is to never do GC, except
>> when explicitely requested.
> 
> Yes, I was saying that in contrast to doing no GC, I would find it useful
> to have a GC system that only collects on demand.

OK, but that is not one of the goals of Epsilon.  It's a reasonable idea,
but it's another project.

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Andrew Haley
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